Inmarsat-6 F2

Inmarsat-6 F2 is the second of two geostationary mobile communications satellites that Airbus Defence and Space built for the London-based operator Inmarsat on its Eurostar 3000EOR platform. Like its twin it carries an L-band payload and a Ka-band payload, with a large 9 metre L-band antenna and Ka-band spot beams, and it was designed to stay in service for more than 15 years. Electric propulsion was to raise it from transfer orbit to its geostationary position. A Falcon 9 launched it from Cape Canaveral in February 2023, but while its orbit was being raised the satellite suffered a power subsystem failure, and it has since stayed in an elliptical orbit of about 48,000 by 23,000 kilometres. Its owner filed an insurance claim of 348 million dollars, which indicates that the satellite was lost.